David Link

Birthyear
1971
Website
http://www.alpha60.de/
About

David Link is a media artist and researcher. Between 2009 and 2011 he was Chair for Experimental Technologies in the Art Context at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. In 2004, he wrote his PhD in philosophy at Humboldt-University Berlin, and the Academy of Arts and the Media, Cologne, with a thesis on text generating software in the early years of computer history (“Poetry Machines / Machine Poetry”). In the beginning of his career he founded and edited ARTIC, a journal for art and philosophy. He also founded Codelab, an artist group for the realization of media art projects in Berlin. Since 1997, numerous national and international institutions and festivals have exhibited his computer art installations and performances. His work “Poetry Machine” (2001), an interactive text generator based on semantic networks, is part of the permanent collection at the Center for Art and Media Technology ZKM, Karlsruhe.

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2006 Research Fellow at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe
2005 Conception and realisation of the 2. "Variantology"-conference at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne / with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski
2005 Guest professor and invited artist at "Le Fresnoy. Studio national des arts contemporains", Tourcoing, France
2004 PhD at Humboldt-University Berlin / Topic: Poetry Machines / Machine Poetry, with Prof. Siegfried Zielinski, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne and Prof. Friedrich Kittler, Institute for Aesthetics, Berlin
1999 Foundation of Codelab, an artist group for the realization of media art projects in Berlin
1999 Artist in residence at V2-Lab, V2-Organisatie, Rotterdam / Project DataPersonalities
1996 - 2002 Guest student and grant at Academy for Media Arts, Cologne
1993 - 1995 Founder and editor of ARTIC, a journal for art and philosophy
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